Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Chicago led the nation in the sheer number of murders last year with 500, eclipsing even New York, which has a much larger population. The FBI statistics released this week show that New York City had 419 murders, followed by Detroit with 386 and Philadelphia with 331 last year. But on a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former deputy police chief in Markham, Ill. was caught with his pants down and now he plans to come clean. Tony DeBois is expected to plead guilty to lying to the FBI about a sexual relationship he had at the police station, The Chicago Sun-Times reports. But it’s unclear how that…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Illinois man complained to local police nearly two weeks ago that two people impersonating FBI agents came into his South Elgin home and examined the contents of his computer. Now the homeowner, L. John Toth, 51, has been charged with making a false police report, The Courier-News reports. Turns out, those…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An undersheriff in Illinois is accused of tipping off a business owner about a DEA investigation into the shipment of more than 60,000 pounds of marijuana, the Daily Herald reports. A sergeant at the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office leveled the accusations against Undersheriff Andrew Zinke, who is running for sheriff in 2014,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The city of Joliet in Illinois could be home to a new detention center for immigrants facing deportation after residents of suburban Crete derailed a similar plan in their city, the Chicago Tribune reports. Joliet officials are considering the plan but were short on specifics. The Tribune said City Manager Tom Thanas…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department plans to use a never-opened state prison in Illinois and turn it into a federal facility, the Chicago Tribune reports. Under President Obama’s direction and over the objections of an influential Republican congressman, the Justice Department purchased the prison for $165 million. The sale is a relief to the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The investigation began with an email message about jihad and ended with a man pressing the trigger on what he believed to be a car bomb outside of a Chicago bar, the Associated Press reports. On Friday, after months of investigating the 18-year-old U.S. citizen from a Chicago suburb,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Most guns recovered in Chicago were originally purchased in Illinois, not states with less-restrictive gun laws, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Citing a groundbreaking study at the University of Chicago Crime Lab, authorities said 58% of the 1,375 guns recovered in crimes in Chicago were bought in Illinois. About 45% came from Cook…
